Election time

[chickenfeet]

We have municipal elections next month so I finally got around to checking out the candidates. There are 38 people running for mayor! As far as I can tell precisely two of them have any chance at all. I shall vote for David Miller, the incumbent, for two main reasons. He plays rugby and the Police Union doesn't like him. I invariably vote for the candidate the Police Union dislikes. The rugby is a bonus. For some reason people don't generally run on party tickets here so sorting out what they actually stand for takes some work. Or it would if the Police Union didn't make it easy.

There are seven people running for councillor in this ward. It's irrelevant. The incumbent is a shoe in which is fine with me. Oddly, I have received precisely no election literature from any of the forty five people who might want my vote.

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[sabotabby]

I've been way too frantic lately to figure out the elections. I suppose I'll vote for Miller again, since there doesn't seem to be any serious challenge from someone a bit farther to the Left. I'm irked that he's increased the police budget so much and that he allowed the homeless to be banned from City Hall, but he still seems to be the best of a bad lot.

Do you know how many councillors one gets to vote for? Himy Syed's running in my riding. He doesn't have a chance in hell, but he gets my long-shot vote. All the others seem to be NDP-affiliated, weirdly enough.

And I'm lost on school trustees. I don't know anything about any of them.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

One councillor per ward. As for the school trustees I have no clue.